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...Martin said. “It’s plays like that that make a big difference out here.”LETTING ’EM PLAYThough just 15 penalties were whistled over the course of the two-game set, the series was anything but tame. Desperate to extend its season, Yale resorted to physical play that often had Coach Stone standing on the Crimson’s bench, screaming at the referees to make a call.“It got too physical in my opinion,” she said. “I thought my players...
After trying to bring “sexy bacch” to Harvard during an otherwise tame reading period, the Sexy Bacchus Society has been accused of taking advantage of a loophole in the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) party-funding process...
...after CIA Director William Casey asked King Fahd for such help on a visit to Jidda in February 1984. There are conflicting reports on Fahd's initial response. But by mid-1985 the Saudis' secret aims coincided with those of the U.S. "Since the U.S. was helping Saudi Arabia tame Iran," says Ghadry, "Saudi Arabia would help the U.S. with the contras...
...just in this lifetime but also in a life to come. In his millennial essay "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died," Tom Wolfe worried that when science has killed the soul, "the lurid carnival that will ensue may make the phrase 'the total eclipse of all values' seem tame...
...fell below $50 a barrel Thursday afternoon, their lowest level since May of 2005. Gasoline prices are down too, to around $2.25 a gallon on average, from a peak of just over $3 last summer. It's all good news for the economy, since lower energy prices traditionally help tame inflation and could ease pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Paying less at the pump leaves motorists with more cash to spend on everything from movies to microwaves. And no one is happier than the airlines, whose cost of jet fuel has plummeted 11.5% in the last...